Family Members Of Victims In The Idaho College Killings Are Furious About Prosecutors’ Plea Deal
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“Idaho has failed. They failed me. They failed my whole family,” Steve Goncalves, the father of Kaylee Goncalves, told NBC.
Some family members of the Idaho college students killed in a brutal 2022 stabbing are slamming a plea deal that prosecutors made with Bryan Kohberger, the suspect charged in the case.
“Idaho has failed. They failed me. They failed my whole family,” Steve Goncalves, the father of one of the victims, Kaylee Goncalves, said in a Tuesday interview on NBC’s “Today” show.
In a letter sent to victims’ relatives, prosecutors announced that Kohberger intended to plead guilty to four counts of first-degree murder for the killings of Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen, four Idaho college students who were stabbed to death at an off-campus house. As a result of the plea, Kohberger is set to face a life sentence without parole and avoid the death penalty.
Members of the Goncalves family have emphasized that they’d like to keep the death penalty on the table, and members of the Kernodle family want Kohberger to face a jury trial, which was previously set to begin in August.
Meanwhile, relatives of both Mogen and Chapin have said they support the agreement that prosecutors reached.
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